Your wedding is the most important day of your life. It should be centred around what you want, and the memories that you want to make, more than anything else. However, if you are going to fill a room with the people that you love, then it is important that you make sure that everyone is having a good time for as long as the night lasts. Although you can just hire a DJ and hope that everyone can entertain themselves with dancing and chatting, a much better way to ensure that a good time is had by all at is to provide some other forms of entertainment which keeps everyone together having a good time, and also encourages people to get to know each other. Here are the top six wedding games for 2015.
Wedding guest bingo
Ask your wedding guests for one interesting fact each about themselves. It can be anything they want, but preferably something that most people won’t know about them. You can then make up bingo cards with these interesting facts on them, and have them on the reception tables when people arrive. Throughout the night, guests can try to work out who is matched with the interesting fact on their card and, once they have filled their card completely, can call ‘bingo!’ for a small prize. You could even have the first two or three people to shout ‘bingo’ as the winners.
20 questions
Very similar to wedding guest bingo, you can still ask guests to list an interesting fact about themselves but then at their tables guests can ask each other 20 questions to try to work out which fact matches which guest. If you try to keep guests to tables where they don’t know each other well, this can act as a great icebreaker. If you are looking at outdoor games to play at Exeter weddings then this could easily take place outside the venue on nice days.
Drinks tasting
A slightly more grown up game which is perfect for the older guests at the wedding, choose drinks which match the tastes of the couple and have volunteers come up to taste the various varieties of drinks for prizes. You could get guests to try to guess at the cost of the drinks, which drink is which and so on, for variations to the game.
The shoe game
The bride and groom sit back to back on chairs, and each take off a shoe and pass it back to the other, so that they each have one of their own and one of their partner’s shoes in their hands. Questions are then asked such as ‘who talks the most?’ or ‘who has the most annoying laugh?’. The bride and groom lift the shoe of the person they think the question best suits and the reception guests can vote on who has the most right answers.
Booklets game
Not only a nice game to play to keep everyone entertained, but also leaves a wonderful keepsake for the bride and groom to enjoy later on. Booklets are placed on the tables with questions in them for guests to answer, such as what the couple should do for their first anniversary or what they should name their first child. Guests can fill these out and then take them up to the top table where the bride and groom can read out some of their favourite answers later on in the evening.
Pub quiz
A good way to get people around the table talking to each other is by hosting a pub quiz. The twist is that the questions are specifically about the bride and groom, rather than standard general knowledge questions. Questions can be asked throughout the night, so that the game is broken up, and at the end the table with the most correct answers can win a prize, such as a bottle of champagne to share.